> The latest version of Microsoft's Equation Editor (and since ~07 imo) is quite good. Still a shame one needs to relearn certain symbols.
Since 2011 on Mac. The new Equation Editor was not in Mac Office 2008.
This was particularly annoying because Mac Office 2008 could load and save DOCX files -- yet you couldn't take it for granted that the equations would carry through.
My understanding is that the Equation Editor relied on some Windows components, which made it difficult to port.
As for LaTeX \symbols, I haven't encountered a problem. But maybe my equations just aren't that complicated. It doesn't always interpret LaTeX equation structure correctly, but I haven't had any problem with \symbols.
Since 2011 on Mac. The new Equation Editor was not in Mac Office 2008.
This was particularly annoying because Mac Office 2008 could load and save DOCX files -- yet you couldn't take it for granted that the equations would carry through.
My understanding is that the Equation Editor relied on some Windows components, which made it difficult to port.
As for LaTeX \symbols, I haven't encountered a problem. But maybe my equations just aren't that complicated. It doesn't always interpret LaTeX equation structure correctly, but I haven't had any problem with \symbols.